KBR: Kickbacks, Bribes, Ripoffs & War Racketeering « VVV Public Relations: BPR + Guerrilla Marketing. “KBR, Inc.
(formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) NYSE: KBR is an American engineering, construction and private military contracting company, formerly a subsidiary of Halliburton, headquartered in Houston. The company also has large offices in Arlington, Birmingham and Leatherhead, UK. After Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries in 1998, Dresser’s engineering subsidiary, The M. W. Kellogg Co., was merged with Halliburton’s construction subsidiary, Brown & Root, to form Kellogg Brown & Root. “When U.S. forces moved into Afghanistan in 2001, there was little, if any, infrastructure to support and house U.S. troops. If you want to know where the Military Intelligence Complex is taking America’s endless wars for profit, all you have to do is follow the KBR contracts. Related Image: Related Videos: KBR Gets No-Bid Army Work, as U.S.
Pentagon Frets Over Wasted Billions Ignores Missing US Troops in Iraq talk about Halliburton & Iraq For Sale – Full Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. Halliburton Loopholes: Solving Challenges with Crony Capitalism « VVV Public Relations: BPR + Guerrilla Marketing. “Halliburton Company is an oilfield services company.
The Company’s two business segments are the Completion and Production segment and the Drilling and Evaluation segment. The Company provides a range of services and products for the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas around the world. It conducts business in approximately 80 countries. The business operations of its divisions are around four primary geographic regions: North America, Latin America, Europe/Africa/CIS, and Middle East/Asia. During the year ended December 31, 2010, based on the location of services provided and products sold, 46% of the revenue was from the United States. “Halliburton has become the object of several controversies involving the 2003 Iraq War and the company’s ties to former U.S. ‘It was reported that Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) filed charges against former U.S.
On 12 October 2011 the U.S. Related Image: Related Videos: Albert Stanley, Former Halliburton Exec, Sentenced In Bribery Scheme. A former top Halliburton executive will serve 2 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty in Houston federal court to orchestrating a $180 million bribery scheme to secure $6 billion in natural gas deals in Nigeria, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
Albert "Jack" Stanley is the former CEO of KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary at the time of the bribes; he was tapped to run the company in 1998 by future Vice President Dick Cheney, who ran Halliburton between 1996 and 2000. Cheney was not charged in the case. KBR, spun off by Halliburton in the wake of the scandal, called the scheme an "unfortunate chapter" in its "rich and storied history" after pleading guilty to corporate criminal charges in 2009. The investigation of the bribes crossed four continents over 10 years and involved five companies in Europe, the U.S., Japan and Nigeria. Criminal and civil penalties in the case have yielded more than $1.7 billion in fines, forfeitures and other sanctions. In a statement to U.S.